Watch This Olympian Do the Happiest Funky Chicken Dance After Winning Gold

Nijat Rahimov 22, of Kazakshan expected a silver medal at best going into the Rio men's 77kg weightlifting event against reigning Chinese champ Lyu Xiajun. Instead, he won and celebrated with a dance worth writing about.

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It kind of looks like if a jacked weightlifter — who served a doping ban between 2013 and 2015 — broke a world record by lifting about 471 pounds of dead weight into the air three times in a row and then remembered the last time he was this happy was at his grandpa's 80th birthday party where all the Olds were chicken-dancing. Or something.

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